Lost phone found in the river and was restored in working order, but unable to fully reset it since there was no way to find the original owner. Any way to get it fully reset?

bridgetfromkennewick wrote:

My husband is a scuba diver, and found a newer iPhone in the river. With the help of my dad, they were able to completely remove all moisture from the phone and it was still in working order. After being able to turn it on, they found that the SIM card had already been disabled. There was no medical ID set, and no other way to find out who this phone actually had belonged to.

We tried to do a reset on the phone, but are getting stopped by the fact that we don’t know the Apple ID/password and cannot fully reset it. It’s a perfectly good phone, and there’s no way we can get it to the original owner. Is there any way to reset it so that way it could be fully reset, even if it meant brining it in to an Apple Store? I would hate for a you doing baby girl why are you eating rocks perfectly good phone to go to waste.

NO, either turn it over to the authorities or drop it off at your closest Apple Store, who will recycle it responsibly. Apple will NOT remove Activation Lock on the phone, nor tell you who the phone may have originally belonged to.

No. The Activation Lock (anti-theft lock) is doing, and will continue to do, its job.

Turn the phone in to the police, or recycle it responsibly.

Nope.

If you aren’t the original owner, it is activation locked and cannot be used.

Hello~ In addition to the information provided…the owner may in fact be able to see exactly where the iPhone is and you may not want a stranger knocking on your door. Turn it over to law enforcement.

~Katana-San~